With the nukes you'd have to hope there's a chain of people between Putin and an actual launch and that those people would ultimately decide they'd rather execute Putin than destroy Earth, rather than a literal button that he can press if he gets a bit frustrated
The moment one launches the US and Britain would retaliate right? You can't just let off a cheeky nuke, it's full blown irreversible destruction the moment a launch is detected
Depends 1980s Staff College war games saw Birmingham nuked followed by us hitting Kyiv(ironically) then stopping ( targets were chosen to be big but not too emotional).
With the nukes you'd have to hope there's a chain of people between Putin and an actual launch and that those people would ultimately decide they'd rather execute Putin than destroy Earth, rather than a literal button that he can press if he gets a bit frustrated
The moment one launches the US and Britain would retaliate right? You can't just let off a cheeky nuke, it's full blown irreversible destruction the moment a launch is detected